(A) Prompt removal and appropriate disposal of dead animal carcasses within 12 hours of death.
(B) It shall be unlawful for any owner or harborer of a domestic animal to not provide for said animal. Such provisions shall include but are not limited to:
(1) Sufficient quantities of good and wholesome food and water;
(2) Proper protection from the weather;
(3) Veterinary care when needed to prevent suffering;
(4) Humane treatment;
(5) Prompt removal and sanitary disposal of all excrement deposited by owner's animal anywhere within the town corporate limits, including all excrement deposited while animal is not on owner's property; and
(6) Inhumane treatment of an animal is any act of mistreatment, torture, cruelty, neglect, abandonment, mutilation, or inhumane slaughter of an animal that is not consistent with generally accepted training, use and husbandry procedures for the species, breed, physical condition, and type of animal.
(C) ANIMAL CARE. The following, as per in SDCL § 40-1-2, shall be used to define ANIMAL CARE:
(1) MISTREATMENT, TORTURE OR CRUELTY of an animal is any act or omission whereby unnecessary, unjustifiable, or unreasonable physical pain or suffering is caused, permitted, or allowed to continue including acts of mutilation.
(2) NEGLECT of an animal is the failure to provide food, water protection from the elements, adequate sanitation, adequate facilities, or care generally considered to be standard and accepted for the animal's health and well-being consistent with the species, breed, physical condition, and type of animal.
(3) INHUMANE TREATMENT of an animal is any act of mistreatment, torture, cruelty, neglect, abandonment, mutilation, or inhumane slaughter of an animal that is not consistent with generally accepted training, use and husbandry procedures for the species, breed, physical condition, and type of animal.
(Ord. 9-1R, passed 2-17-2015; Ord. passed 12-15-2020)